The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-10
COMMENT AND OPINION.

If Governor Hills boom will sit down and
cross it's legs for time it won't be so tired when
the starting signal is given. Philadelphia
Times.
PARADoxIcAL as it may seem. New York is
seeking for its health board men who know
nothing about dirty work. Philadelphia North
American.
THE only genuine miracle of the year thus far
is the protest of several Democratic papers in
Indiana against the exclusion Of Lieutenant
governor Robertson from the office to which he
was elected.-National Republican.
A FRIEND Of the President says that he ought
not to have said that he would not 60 to the Cap
itol to sign bills until he knew it.' 1t is one
of the Presidents faiIings that he says things be-
fore he knows about them The George w llliam
Curtis letter was one Of those things. Boston
Journal
Mr.. RANDALL has become intolerable to the
country 10 the position of appropriation chair
man. The removal of this obstruction is essen
tial to regular orderly and constitutional iegis-
lative procedure in Congress. II ever dictator
shall be needed to hold rod over the rcpre-
sentatives Of the people in Congress he will be
made of another sor. Of timber.-Philadelph ia
Record.
THE New York Woman Suffrage League has
passed resolutions condemnatory of Governor
Hill for his brutal obstinacyn in refusing TO
pardon Mrs Druse. Wouldn't a Communication
of the death sentence have been a violation of
the woman suffrage doctrine of no distinction
on account of sex, mesdames2 Perhaps the
| Governor is an ardent woman sutfraglst
| ton Herald.
| IT would have been vastly better had this
tardy recognition of the pighted faith OF the
ton to the holders of trade dollars gone further
and stopped the coinage OF the bastard silver
dollars which now shame the government; but
| considering that it could not be DONE let US be
| thankful that the trade dollar reputation is
ended, and the faith of the nation fulfilled by
| their redemption, philadelphia Times.
| CAN it be that the nation that invented the
| Baltimore clipper, that invented the clipper
| ship. that built the America and the Puritan.
| that put the first ironclad into the water has to
confess that the hand of its naval constructors
| has lost its cunning. and that the nation of
progress must be content to sail along IN John
| Bulls wake servile imitator of naval design
and constructiona-San Francisco Chronicle.
| THERE are two things thoroughly bad in In
| diana One is the management of her politics
| and the other s the management of her prisons.
Hhey connected by a natural tie, although
| the intimacy between them is nothing like sc
| close as the most of people would like to see
| it. 1t is shrewdly surmlsed that the best way
! to reform the management OF the Indiana
| prisons is to stock the cells with Indiana poiiti
| clans. brooklyn Eagle.
IT is all we'll enough TO bring outside officers
into Washington to spend their substance, bu
to go outside to select Washington official, al
President Cleveland did-and that outsider of
color-was little short of madness 1.-The Dis
trict' will never forgive this fragrant breach o
| home rule. The District exists to subsst upoI
the States. The idea of turning the States
| loose to browse in the District is thin.
under the sun. -Philadelphia Record.
TIE President is so egotistic, so full of q feel
| ing of his own Importance, that he did rot unit
the Senate was about to adjourn come to hi
| room at the Capitol in order to sign such bills a
| Congress might, in the last moments Of the ses
sion. pass. 1t the custom of his predeces
sors to GO to the Capitol on the last day in orde
to facilitate the dispatch of business; but he, il
his pigh headed stupidity, remained away unit
II o'clock. which just four minutes befor
the Senate adjourned-the Senate clock havn
been set back He is pretty specimen Of JET
fersonian mpiicity.-Danver Republican.